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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






2. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






3. Broken down acts.






4. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






5. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






6. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






7. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






8. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






9. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






10. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






11. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






12. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






13. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






14. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






15. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






16. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






17. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






18. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






19. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






20. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






21. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






22. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






23. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






24. The dictionary meaning of a word.






25. A strong pause within a line.






26. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






27. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






28. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






29. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






30. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






31. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






32. The time and place of a story or play.






33. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






34. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






35. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






36. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






37. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






38. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






39. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






40. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






41. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






42. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






43. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






44. A character struggles against some outside force.






45. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






46. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






47. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






48. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






49. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






50. A short saying with a moral.